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Question 9: Are you talking more than 20 000 people?

Answer: Mr Yeung: I think it is very difficult to say at this stage.

We have announced a figure of

a figure of something like 2 000 to begin with for the ACP. But I think there will be a gradual mounting up, I

* don't think we will see anything as large as 20 000.

Mrs Chan:

I think also you need to bear in mind, and certainly in so far as

the construction of the airport is

the airport is concerned,

concerned, it is,

so that in basically, a very large civil engineering contract, of machinery and whatnot there will be a very heavy component. terms of labour, relatively, smaller.

terms In

Let me put on my old hat once more Mr Yeung:

[former post as Secretary for Education and Manpower] and say that the special scheme for importing labour will

labour will be subject to

be subject to fairly basic, fundamental, rules. Like, for example, the fact that no-one will be able to import at wages below the published median wages.

Question 10: Can you give a revised figure for the core projects

from that is likely to be met now? And say what proportion of private sector?

the

not

the

Mr Yeung:

We haven't quite finished our sums. Now, I am pleading any excuse. The fact of the matter is that, apart from airport platform and the Tsing Ma Bridge, for which detailed design is very nearly completed, almost completed, in respect of all other aspects of the core programme, detailed design is proceeding.

Now, we all know that, until detailed design is finished, you have to live with ball park figures. So, at this point in time, we But We are can't really say what the final price tag will be. updating old figures to 1991 values in order to arrive at a figure which we will be presenting to Finance Committee in the middle of this month.

Within that total cost we estimate that something like 60 per The remaining cent will fall to be met by government as expenditure. 40 per cent will fall to be privatised, would fall to the private sector in the form of franchises.

Question 11: You say you can give ball park figures...

Mr Yeung:

to Answer:

It would be misleading at this stage for me give you a ball park figure because haven't finished doing our calculations.

we

Question 12: But you gave a ball park figure of 79 billion earlier in the proceedings. How does that relate to this?

Answer: Mr Yeung:

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That is the figure we are trying to update. That is the figure we gave to Finance Committee but it was at 1990 prices. We are now trying to update that. Plus we are trying to add on two other components.

* ACP Aiport Core Programme

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